the way the word is used in huck finn mostly isnt even racist edit sorry but alot of you are really fucking stupid you do know that words dont exist in a vacuum right you do know that in s missouri nigger was just the way you said black person sure it wasnt a nice word but it had no where near the connotation it does today if you took your average person from that time they would use the word nigger to refer to a black person this in no way meant that the speaker was a hateful white supremacist seriously guys you exist in a certain time and place and it is insane how willing you are to bind the past to the exact cultural expectations that you feel in la or whatever the fuck seriously some stupid people on this sub